On Chinese Painting Female Artist Painting Consciousness Changes

A famous person in Han Dynasty called Xu Shen, who is mentioned a quote at《Origin of Chinese Characters》."Hua Lei, Yao’s sister, so that her paintings arestarted from drew Lei." Paintings and women have a natural connection in thepatriarchal society of federalism in order to woman paintings would not becomemainstream. It also would not be accept and value by the society. Women were merelyas an art object depicted by a male artist. Even though the paintings of birds andflowers were heritage by natural flora and fauna from thousands years, and it has ametaphor for relations between the bisexual. On the other hand, the birds wererepresents the male, occupied the leading position at paintings. Nevertheless, eachdynasty still had few women painters, who could be publicity or humble to pursuetheir own artistic dreams. These women relied on their own men, used their men’ssources to complete their arts of painting, and derived their characters from paintingideas of men. Although this is a way to get rid of hogtied by patriarchal ideology, ithas begun to reveal the unique and delicate feelings of women and aesthetictendencies. Yang Jieyu of Song Dynasty and Guan Ji of Yuan Dynasty are few womenartists at mid-feudal society. During to the Ming Dynasty and Qing Dynasties, it hassprung up in large numbers of female artists such as Man Chu, Yun Bing, Ma Quan,Ma Shou Zhen, and Liu Rushi. Meanwhile, a lot of female artists are begun toincreasable active painting in the arts.Throughout the history of ancient female painters had some same characters asthe nature of learning from teachers, caters and simplicity. Under the patriarchalsociety of feudal monarchy, women were dependent on men, who led to thepersonality of female and the ideology of female could not to be independent. It isobvious that the way to handle material and the way to deal with screen techniqueshad limitations. This also shows that under the rule of feudal patriarchal society,female wanted a full development of painting is very tough. Not to say that femalelacked artistic talents, nor a lack of imagination and creativity. It is because the stagewith the particular historical development of the social environment hided thedevelopment of women painting. With the development of social progress, the improvement of times, women gradual break the shackles of feudal ideology, and theyadapted independent lifestyle. In the painting, the social status has improved so thatself-awareness and education system encouraged a large number of female artists topromote. Some of them female painters have some special characteristic, whichinfluenced by times.In the promoting gender equality of today’s society, the society is no longer tocontempt and ignores the female artists. During the late Qing Dynasty from the earlyRepublic, some upper class female came from Shanghai, their name were XiangningHe, Su Pan, Xiaoman Lu, Qiujun Li, Xiaocui Chen, Zhiyun.Pan, Shujuan Wu,Qingyao Gu, Wenfeng Feng, Yuemei Xie, and Jingzhao Bei et., who led to theNational Institute of Education. Yuliang Pan, Zilan Guan, Duoci Sun, Weilian Cai,Junbi Fang and other female artists were the first to receive education and go aboard.In the early liberation, there was some female hero to break the traditional social issue,who were Sicong Zhou, Zhizhen Yu, Shuhui Wan, and Fen Yu. In1985, a new trend ofart thought occurred to promote the ideology of female artists, and made their groupgrowing. Female artists brought a new attitude stands in Chinese art history, whobroke the shackles of tradition, and they have get a victory in the arts.Female artists have diversity in the arts at the recent years. It is because that theprogress of time and it also reflects the impact of social changes on female painters.This influence is come from the ideological roots, not an individual occasion. It is theentire social environment has changed to be an inevitable outcome. The changes ofthinking could motivate and change painting consciousness. After one century, femaleartists from obscurity to grow up, who come through with the ideas of male artists.From the female have their unique perspectives to see the world. Their perspectivescould show different scenery at the Chinese painting history.